Robert J. Sawyer Quotes

Writing is transmogrifying, not just for the reader but also for the author; an author becomes someone he or she isn't by living the lives of his or her characters.

Robert J. Sawyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: April 29, 1960

Topics

WritingSomeoneLivingSheHerJust

If you do television, and it's great, it's the best job there is. Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. I love that it's like theater too, and the audience, and it's so short, like twenty minutes... It's like a Haiku or something.

Joan Cusack

WorkLoveOpportunityGreatBest

I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.

Andrew Wyeth

SearchFeelingAliveWantRealSee

I'm very good at plot.

Matthew Reilly

GoodPlotVery

When you're in a turnaround situation, you cannot incrementalize your way out of it.

Steve Easterbrook

YouSituationWayOutCannotYour

I think there's a knee-jerk reaction to things from parents.

Spike Jonze

ParentsThinkReactionThings

What most people do is they make terrific films, one in three if you're very lucky, maybe one in five. So you just have to keep on, you have to get through the bad bits.

Mike Newell

PeopleYouBadThreeLuckyThrough

I grew up on a farm, so there were rifles around. Every March around springtime, there's a big hunt that goes on, and you go out and hunt down all the pheasants. I actually never shot the pheasants; I'm not a big fan of killing animals myself.

Joseph Mawle

MyselfFarmYouDownGoNever

The scary thing is a dramatic erosion of American position in the world - its economic, military position, as well as America's influence. Obama is not the man at the wheel desperately trying to conserve American power, influence and wealth. For ideological reasons, he wants the slipping to continue. He's actually the architect of it.

Dinesh D'Souza

PowerManInfluenceWorldAmerican

Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death.

Donald Cargill

FearGodDeathYouFindFair

Racism is not new. It was not invented just for you. So get bigger than that stuff.

Chris Gardner

RacismYouNewBiggerGetStuff

I had some very good years at Madrid.

Arjen Robben

GoodYearsMadridSomeVeryHad

Dreams really tell you about yourself more than anything else in this world could ever tell you.

Sylvia Browne

DreamsYourselfWorldYouMoreTell

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